From Steve Murray: “I feel like I have answered all possible questions in the world. We will wrap it up here and I’ll continue to answer the stragglers over on twitter @NPsteve with the hashtag #postipedia! Thanks for allowing me to help you.”

With Wikipedia out of action, the National Post‘s Steve Murray is picking up the slack for the ubiquitous online encyclopedia.

Send your questions to @NPsteve on Twitter with the hashtag #Postipedia or you can sign in using your login for Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Gmail or MSN; use an anonymous login or email questions to 37096@scribblelive.com. For more on the whats and whys of the Wikipedia blackout, read on below.

Wikipedia’s blackout starts at 12:00 a.m. eastern time (5:00 a.m. GMT) Wednesday and will last until 12:00 a.m. eastern time Thursday (also 5:00 a.m. GMT) as part of the site’s protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

SOPA is a piece of legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that’s designed to target online copyright infringers through a series of harsh penalties. There’s also a separate companion bill in the Senate called the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA).

SOPA and PIPA’s backers include the MPAA — which counts the major movie studios and television networks in its membership — most major book publishers and several ISPs. On the other side of the battle are Internet content companies including Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo! and several others have publicly come out against the legislation, who say the legislation would turn the Internet into a police state.